Re: [MacPerl] Comments about the new FAQ

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

I don't know about the 68000, but based on recent experience, I'd have to 
say that MacPerl (Perl5) goes back plenty far with respect to older Macs.

I wrote a custom Perl5 app for my Dad, and it's been running on my 
PowerMac. Since his stint as church treasurer is going to extend past the 
availability of my machine, he wanted his own machine, and it had to run 
Perl5. As of a few days ago, he's got a 6-year old 68020 LC II with a 
40MB HD and System 7.0.1 running the latest MacPerl, BBEdit Lite, and so 
forth.

I'm not impressed by much, but this qualified. :-) Thanks, Matthias.

(Oh yeah, for $500 CAN he got the box, monitor, a CD-ROM drive, and a 
Stylewriter. For his purposes he's set. There's enough disk space left 
that I can give him a TeX/LaTeX minimum runtime, plus he can allocate 
enough VM to run all of the above at once. Ahhh, for the days when people 
wrote efficient programs... :-))

Arved in Nova Scotia

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Paul J. Schinder wrote:

> Just some comments about the new FAQ.  I thought I'd post them to the list
> instead of sending them directly to Vicki so that others could comment.
> 
> 2) Does MacPerl actually run on 68000 based machines (i.e. MacPlus)?  The
> FAQ seems to say that it does, but I thought Perl 5 doesn't.
> 

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